Al Shabab threatens regional war in Africa.
Somalia’s al-Shabab fighters have said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from the two countries.
The threat follows the killing on Thursday of at least 30 people in Mogadishu, the capital, by Amisom, the African Union’s peacekeeping force to which Uganda and Burundi contribute troops.
Speaking late on Thursday, Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, a senior al-Shabab commander, said: “We shall make their people cry. We’ll attack Bujumbura and Kampala … We will move our fighting to those two cities and we shall destroy them.”
